Russia Calls on Georgia for Repatriation of Meskhetians

In a statement issued on March 11 the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the Georgian government of defying its commitment over repatriation of Meskhetian Turks undertaken by Georgia upon its accession to the Council of Europe (CoE) in 1999.
 
?Tbilisi does not even try to demonstrate that it wishes to solve this issue. Numerous reminders by the Council of Europe look like friendly reproaches rather than the attempts of inducing Georgia to meet its commitments,? the Russian Foreign Ministry stated.
 
Currently a part of the Meskhetian Turks, who were deported from Georgia in 1944, are residing in Russia?s Krasnodar district without Russian citizenship.